Right Turn Career-Focused Youth Transition Initiative

The Right Turn Career-Focused Transition Initiative (Right Turn) provides a career development process for youth that are involved with or at risk of becoming involved with the juvenile justice system. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (DOL-ETA) and led by the Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL), Right Turn is being implemented in high-crime and high-poverty communities across the country by non-profit and local organizations with expertise in career development, education, mentoring, youth development, juvenile justice, and disability.

Right Turn currently has four program sites: Peckham Inc. in Lanisng, Michigan, The Children's Cabinet in Reno, Nevada, Lawrence Hall in Chicago Illinois, and Onondaga Community College in Syracuse, New York.